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RTTY by SKIP, K0ARG.
The Linotype (1886) was one of the main printing techniques of the 20th century. With this machine, it was possible to produce metal lines to print, instead of doing it letter-by-letter. It didn’t use a qwerty keyboard, and there was no shift key. The keyboard was organized according to the popularity of the characters.
There is a movie about this machine, and there’s some clips from it here.
Agnes Denes, photographed in the context of Dialectic Triangulation, posing together with The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S, who programmed her work. They say:
We were also supposed to progam another project for another artist, Agnes Denes, but she didn’t understand how computers worked and designed what was basically just an animated movie, with little interaction, and too complex for us to program.
The Tree of Life pattern was picked up by the Navajo around 1900 from the Christians who picked it up from the Armenians, according to this page. The Navajo also refer to it as Bird Pictorial.
Commodore MicroComputer, issue 11, February 1981. source
Quilts by Mary Maxtion from the Robert and Helen Cargo Collection, via
American cotton prints, mostly from the 1880s, from the.design.center.
Mullions by Richard Kostelanetz (1970), Via.
